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DBMS > Datastax Enterprise vs. Firebird vs. Galaxybase vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres

System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. Firebird vs. Galaxybase vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres

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NameDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformServerless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.82
Rank#65  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.firebirdsql.orggalaxybase.comhyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperDataStaxFirebird FoundationChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Hyprcubd, Inc.Actian Corporation
Initial release20112000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20171974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current release6.8, April 20205.0.1, August 2024Nov 20, November 202112.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and JavaGoC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesStrong typed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
gRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLuser defined procedures and functionsnoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"noneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingSource-replica replicationIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesnoyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access controltoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Datastax EnterpriseFirebirdGalaxybaseHyprcubdIngres
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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